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title: Various savage tales, which needed a good deal of editing, are deriv… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

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Various savage tales, which needed a good deal of editing, are derived from the learned pages of the 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute.'

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**Who acts:** Various savage tales · **What happens:** need, derive, learn, deal, page · **To what, where:** good deal, Various savage tales, learned pages, editing, Journal

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Various savage tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:1:31
# text = Various savage tales, which needed a good deal of editing, are derived from the learned pages of the 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute.'
1	Various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	editing	editing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Anthropological	Anthropological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | Various savage tales | a good deal of editing |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | Various savage tales |  | the learned pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Institute |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from page=Material |
| 3 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | editing |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **page** |  |  | the Journal of the Anthropological Institute |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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